Odnaleziony kodeks Schwedlera z Kłodzka i Nysy (1626‒38)
The Rediscovered Schwedler Codex from Kłodzko and Nysa (1626‒38)

Summary/Abstract: The Schwedler Codex, a manuscript written in Kłodzko and in Nysa in the years 1626–38, is regarded as one of the most important seventeenth-century sources of music created in Silesia. After the Second World War, this manuscript was considered lost. Recently, it was rediscovered in the collection of the University of Warsaw Library. Most of the compositions recorded in this source still need identification, which requires comprehensive comparative research. However, the notes added by copyists and verified through reference to bases of available music sources reveal that the manuscript contains inter alia music by Italian composers, such as Lodovico Viadana and Giovanni Valentini, and works by Protestant composers (Michael Praetorius, Samuel Besler and Leonard Paminger), which attest to the exchange of repertoire between environments of different religious confessions. It is also the only known source of works by Simon Praunstein, a Jesuit composer active in Kłodzko and elsewhere. Appended to the text is an inventory of the compositions recorded in the manuscript.

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